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SUMMARY/TALKING POINTS
The Mainstream media (MSM) are strongly biased toward the left. Their news is mostly talking points of the Democrat Party.
Specifically, MSM (and Democrats) are using black and white thinking, emotionally charged labels and slogans, generalizations, and oversimplifications, opinions disguised as facts, half-truths and lies/hoaxes to constantly support Democrat positions and unfairly smear President Trump.
Most major newspapers, Academia, Google, and Facebook also have a strong left, anti-Trump bias, and are influencing millions of Americans in that direction.
Because of leftists in Academia, a recent poll reveals that 70% of millennials would likely vote for a socialist candidate. Furthermore, 19% of them see The Communist Manifesto as a surer guarantee of freedom and equality than the Declaration of Independence, and 15% think that the world would be a better place if the Soviet Union still existed.
Americans, who get their news and beliefs from MSM, university professors, and/or liberal newspapers have not heard the truth on most of today’s important issues. As a result, they have formed their opinions on Republican positions and President Trump based on biased, incomplete, and even false information.
A left-biased media interferes with our election process and is a threat to our democracy. Why? Because in a Democracy it is important that the electorate be as informed (with the truth) as possible so they can make good decisions.
DISCUSSION
The Mainstream media (MSM) is strongly biased toward the left. Their news is mostly talking points of the Democrat Party and is filled with propaganda and pseudo-events. Specifically, MSM (and Democrats) are using black and white thinking, emotionally charged labels and slogans, generalizations, and oversimplifications, opinions disguised as facts, half-truths and lies/hoaxes (see next section for detail) to constantly support Democrat positions and unfairly smear President Trump and Republican positions. Most major newspapers, Academia, and Google and Facebook also have a strong left, anti-Trump bias, and are influencing millions of Americans in that direction. The rest of this section proves these claims.
At the following link is this diagram assembled by the well-known moderate Sharyl Attkisson at the following link. On the far-left side are MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, LA Times, Washington Post, New York Times, the AP, and Time.
Here a senior ABC correspondent admits that he is a socialist (4:20), says “fake news abounds” (1:48) and says “We also don’t give him (Trump) credit for what things he does do.” (2:00)
Only two (Las Vegas Review-Journal and Jacksonville’s Florida Times-Union) of the largest 100 newspapers in the country endorsed Donald Trump, so your newspaper is probably biased against him.
In a clip here, highly respected journalist Lara Logan decries how “one single political ideology” dominates almost all academic institutions and how that same ideology has created a near-uniform political ideology in the field of journalism. Earlier in the year she said: “Although the media has always been left-leaning, we’ve abandoned our pretense or at least the effort to be objective today…We’ve become political activists, and some could argue propagandists…”
For a brilliant discussion of media bias, watch this Brandon Straka clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssNEJD3xC8A&feature=youtu.be
For specific proof of MSM bias against President Trump see the Trump Hoaxes page on this website.
This link states that 39% of 51 top-ranked liberal arts colleges have zero registered Republicans on their faculties. In the 51 communications departments (where journalists are trained) there are 108 Democrats and zero Republicans.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/heres-how-few-republicans-are-college-faculties
Google and Facebook also have a strong liberal bias:
In this clip, Dr. Robert Epstein, former editor in chief of Psychology Today who voted for Hillary Clinton testifies at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that his multi-year research proved that Google manipulation of search influenced 2.6-10.4 million voters in favor of Hillary Clinton. He also implicated Facebook for testing “go vote reminders” to Democrats only.
Watch Google executives reacted to Trump’s election in a large staff meeting. The video features co-founders Larry Page and Brin, VPs Kent Walker and Eileen Naughton, CFO Ruth Porat, and CEO Sundar Pichai.
Here a Facebook employee discusses the company’s bias against conservatives:
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1187042768046231558
Here’s another Facebook employee identifying rampant censorship of conservative content by Facebook content moderators.
Media liberal bias has never been so obvious as in the coverage of protests following the death of George Floyd.
This article documents how 99.3% of ABC, CBS, and NBC’s first week coverage of the protests ignored the mob’s murder victims, numbering at least 10.
The violent rioting, looting, destruction of property and deaths were also downplayed by the media who consistently focused on the peaceful protestors.
The rioting and looting started in Minneapolis then from the following Wikipedia link "Demonstrations in many other cities also descended into riots and widespread looting." "As of July 5, 2020, at least 29 people have died during the unrest, with 25 due to gunshot wounds."
The extent of the violence and crime in all the democrat controlled large cities nationwide can be inferred from the Minnesota governor’s request for assistance in rebuilding and repairing the state’s infrastructure. The damages resulting from Minneapolis’s unrest is established to be more than $500 million with more than 1,500 buildings damaged.
https://thegrio.com/2020/07/12/minnesota-governors-federal-aid-denied/
In the following two links we see that
1. the New York Times editorial page editor was forced to resign after publishing an op-ed that advocated sending in troops to quell the riots. The pressure came mostly from the Times’ staff.
and
2. the top news editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, also resigned following the publication of a headline entitled "Buildings Matter, Too" that drew condemnation from readers and the newspaper's staff.
Because the MSM has a liberal, democrat bias, they engage in selective reporting—presenting only information that supports their narratives and leaving out information that opposes them. When it comes to President Trump, their articles and reports are never about his accomplishments but what they claim went wrong, what they claim could have been done better.
Bottom Line: Americans who get their news and beliefs from MSM, university professors, and/or liberal newspapers have not heard the truth on most of today’s important issues. As a result, they have formed their opinions on Republican positions and President Trump based on biased, incomplete, and even false information.
A left-biased media interferes with our election process and is a threat to our democracy. Why? Because in a Democracy it is important that the electorate be as informed (with the truth) as possible so they can make good decisions.
See the Bringing Left and Right Together page on this website for suggestions on how to identify your invalid biases and work toward determining the truth.
Maybe the best way to get news that balances left biased MSM is to follow Elon Musk on X---his handle is @elonmusk. A former Democrat he saw how MSM, Google, Facebook, and Twitter were suppressing the truth if it came from conservatives. So he bought Twitter, changed the name to X, and now uses it to post facts that the Left would suppress.
Another way to get news that balances left biased MSM is to watch Fox News. When Obama was president, they were the TV news channel that minimized and challenged whatever the president did and spread conspiracy theories.
But since Trump has been in the White House, they are more truthful than any of the MSM who now is guilty of minimizing and challenging President Trump’s accomplishments and spreading conspiracy theories. Yes, Fox has conservative viewpoints, but they are honest about it and frequently have Democrat guests on to express their opinions. Fox’s show “The Five” has a Democrat on the panel. Fox does not have to resort to “fake” news because they can please their base by honestly reporting the news from a conservative point of view and being what Tucker Carlson describes as “the sworn enemy of (Democrat) lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink.”
Other good ways to get news that balances left biased MSM is to watch the conservative videos at Prager U. and to follow the people on Twitter (now X) who excel at countering fake, misleading, and incomplete “news” from MSM. The best is @elonmusk. Others (in alphabetical order) are:
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays Author of Win Bigly and Loserthink who takes a rational look at the news every day.
Dan Bongino @dbongino Host of the Dan Bongino Show , author of Spygate and many other books.
Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a non-profit organization whose mission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote freedom, author of The Maga Doctrine.
Kevin McCarthy @kevinomccarthy House Republican Leader.
Devin Nunes @DevinNunes Chair of the House Intelligence Committee from 2015 to 2019.
Candace Owens @RealCandaceO A former Democrat who founded Blexit (Black Exit), a movement to convince black Americans to exit the .Democratic party, and author of Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation.
Brandon Straka @BrandonStraka A Hillary Clinton voter who founded the #WalkAway campaign when he discovered how he’d been betrayed by MSM and the Democratic Party.
Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr Author of Triggered.
and, yes,
President Trump @realDonaldTrump
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